Air France was ordered to pay $17,000 in damages to a pro-Palestinian activist who was kicked off a flight to Israel after she revealed she isn't Jewish.

In April 2012, an Air France employee asked Horia Ankour, 30, whether she had an Israeli passport and if she's Jewish, the BBC reports. When she said "No" to both questions, she was escorted from the plane.

Ankour, who was headed to Tel-Aviv to protest on behalf of Palestinians, sued for racial discrimination, and the court sided with her.

The airline said it asked her to leave because she was on a list of undesirables provided by Israel and wouldn't have been granted access to the country when she arrived.

But because the employee asked Ankour about her ethnic origins and implied it factored into the airline's decision to kick her off the plane, the court ruled Ankour was the victim of racial discrimination.